What's the difference between bounteous and overbounteous?
Bounteous
Definition:
(a.) Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phil Bentley, MD, British Gas Injecting a different view about vets Pity the poor vet ( Counting the real cost of being a vet , Your Shout, 3 October) who is hard-up despite the bounteous income from all those multiple jabs his profession insists on inflicting on our pets, and from treating the often incurable side effects thereof.
(2) Palace’s promotion in 2013, just three years after administration, meant an immediate £66m increase in TV income, delivering a bounteous £23m profit as the wage increase was kept to £27m.
(3) Now all the cash is spent, it's still the grand romantic gesture, in another kind of way: dangling a line off the wall at high tide and waiting for a crab, taking him home in my bucket, cooking him on the Campingaz stove, cracking him open and eating him – one of the sea's great bounteous luxuries for nowt.
(4) In 1998 he had an outstanding season at Shakespeare's Globe, where he appeared in As You Like It and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters, in which he played Sir Bounteous Progress – "gazing benignly", as John Gross wrote, "on almost everything, even his own undoing".